Quotes About Integrity

Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

He believed, not without some) ustification, that Doubleday had set out deliberately to subvert the book it had bought from him.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Good night, and good luck.

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

You never know in life. Sometimes people can mean what they say.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship, is recorded.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God

If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

We shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.